The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-18


snoulu pe glad to hear from him.
~ W. j., Cabarrus County, N CT see an article
III your weekly of September GOTH taken from the
Aieficus Recorder, aboutth cultivation of Spanish
ground peas. Win you be so kind as toinforrn me
49, can get seed and at what price, also what
soi ls oest adapted to them, red or sandy?
Quite number of inquiries similar to above have
leached us recently. Parties having Spanish ground
peas Ior sale would do well to advertise them stat
my Terms We are unable to give the information
asked as to parties selling n price
Like other varities the Spanish prefers a
sou hght rather than heavy. A sandy loan
SUITS II best. The pods are small, but the ker-
nels MI them completely, and the latter arc
ABOUT the usual size. The pods form chiefly
around the main root, and that makes the
gathering easy. From the trials we have given
IL (tWo years. we think it desirable variety.
D. 8 l.. W., Cascade Ark, Faulkner county,
hrclosed, send you q sample of lntless cotton
seed ~ o0''o
II grew on what seems to be common stalk of
co't'h' put the bolls contained nothing but black,
SICK seed, such as the sample sent
This cotton was found in field of several acres in
1886 1t being the only stalk of the kind in the field
. IN 1851 the seed ftom this stalk was planted to
lselt and in the early autumn the bolls began to
crack and to the astonishment of all contained
nothing but seed
This cotton was raised by Mr.. Dan Hamilton
Newton township, Faulkner county, Arkansas
Can you account in any way for this strange freak
of nature?
Inc amount OF lint on a cotton seed is quite
varlapie. Much greater for instance, on up
land than on sea island cotton. On the first
there Is set OF short fibres, in addition to the
long, which remain on the seed after ginning
In the second the long fibres only arc present
ana the seed,after ginning ARE naked like those
sent. Had nothing been said, we should have
taken them for Sea island cotton seed AS the
Int Is not essential to the termination or
growth OF the seed-merely serves as a means
OF scattering them-it may be absent without
serious injury to the plant, and in the case
cited is one of those Sports or variations
often met with, but not readily explained. AS
the commercial value of cotton depends MAIN
ly on its lint, this variety ought to be exterm-
mated, less it mpresses its lntless character on
other plants.
l.. r. R., Bermuda, Ala First, which is better for
winter grazing for mares and young colts oats or
rye? Second How much of the latter should be
sown per acre on thin pine land? Does land i'm
prove by manuring alone with c. s. meal and
phosphate?
l. Rye. Not perhaps that it is superior in
quality, but because it is much harder and
will make more growth in cold weather. On
very rich land it will make some Roadway all
through the winter, except in extremely cold
weather when it is frozen up
2. From three pecks to a bushel. On such
land as you mention, you may not expect much
grazing unless you have several acres to each
animal For best results ALSO it should have
been sown in September.
3. Yes; if not kept under clean culture too
continuously, and the meal used pretty freely
Cotton seed meal is complete manure in the
sense of containing all the substances
that plants take from the soil /;
but it contains them in very unequal
quantities. For instance it contains about six
or seven per cent of nitrogen and only about two
each of phosphate acid and potash. When
used in conjunction with phosphate the de-
fciency of phosphoric acid is fully supplied by
that substance, but potash and other mineral
ingredients are not.
Hence, lands naturally deficient in potash
might become depleted of that substance if
only meal and phosphate were applied to it.
and the meal in small quantity, as is generally
the case. The usual ratio is about one of meal
to three OF phosphate. Ordinarily, however,
if land was allowed to rest every few years SO
that its supply Of humus would be good, the
unavailable minerals of the soil would be rem
dered available fast enough, probably to keep
the land productive under applications of meal
and phosphate alone.
A. D. NJ, Hampton, Ca: have gathered twelve
or fifteen thousand pounds of peas, and wish to
feed them TO my mules in the hull, in lieu of corn
Some say they not healthy to feed mules Please
tell me what you know about it,
Peas in the huIl is an eYce1lent s+oc1r food
and may be fed with entire safety. On the
seaboard of Georgia it was very general Gus
tom before the war to feed stock on peas in the
hull as the chief grain ration. We have known
horses and mules to be fed on them thus for
years, and the animals were as healthy and free
from disease as any we ever saw. The grain
OF the pea is rather too concentrated food, but
eaten with the hull the latter dilutes it and
makes up its deficiency in some substances.
The grain eaten with the hull is sure, also Of
being ground up i'll mastication, hence less
danger from swelling than where the whole
grain is fed by itself A mixed ration of peas
and corn is better than either alone. One sup
plements the other and gives variety,
which is both pleasant and healthful to the
animals.
A. II. p, Richland, Ca: l. Are the most of the
States and if SO, where? .. have horse that got
bellowsed the past summer Give me remedy, if
there is any, and what causes it, 8. Are there any
one-horse mowers made, and where could get one?
First-At present cotton ties are imported.
Some time ago they were manufactured in the
United States, but at present they are not, SO
far as we know.
Second-Bellows or heaves produced by two
things One, some arrangement in the princi-
pal nerve that supplies the lung other an
alteration of the structure of the lung itself
The little cells which receive the air, become
broken down, so that several are united in one
and this large cell is so constructed that the
air can not escape from it readily In short
the air cannot be renewed sufficiently in the
lung. and the animal is practically in state
of partial suffocation, especially when extra
demand for air is caused by exercise. This
last form of the disease Is incurable, tho pal
lated by means to be mentioned directly. The
other form, (neryous,) is sometimes relieved
by arsenic. Five grain doses daily for two
weeks, then omitted for one week, and repeat
ed again. It has been pushed to fifteen grains
daily for two weeks, but this is excessive.
Horse traders who are INSCRIPTIONS, relieve
it temporarily, by large doses of stimulants
nv, ounce each of coDperas 0entian and min